Open letter to our neighbor, who may or may not have OCD
I realize you did not move in under circumstances that would have predisposed us to a long and lasting friendship. The previous inhabitants of your house, S and her two daughters, were good friends of ours and frequently invited us over for some excellent Indian food. Sadly, due to these tough economic times, they lost their home and were forced to move out. Our whole family was saddened by this turn of events, but I assure you we did not hold S’s loss against you.
What we do hold against you however, is the unwarranted use of your car’s horn.
Why must you honk your horn repeatedly throughout the day? And not just once, but in three short bursts: Beep! Beep! Beep! I know that this is probably your car alarm sound, but why must you activate it so often? Are you checking to make sure that your car is still there? Because, really, you could just look out your window and get the same results without disturbing any of your neighbors. What I find even harder to understand is why you go outside, look at your car, and then press the alarm button (Beep! Beep! Beep!), before walking back inside the house. Do you need to make sure the alarm still works? Because it was working fine 10 minutes ago when you last activated the triple horn, and I don’t think much has changed since then.
So, maybe you do have OCD. I can understand that and even sympathize with the anxiety you must feel when you do not hear your car go “Beep! Beep! Beep!” However, is it possible that you could confine your OCD to civilized hours? Honking your horn at 11:30 pm on a Sunday evening is bad enough, but doing it again at 1:25 am is just plain excessive. For goodness sake, I’m trying to sleep and your car is parked almost right below my bedroom window!
Please, I beg you, stop activating your car alarm, unless you are getting into or out of your car. If this reckless use of a car horn persists, I may be forced to commit automobilicide. Or at the very least, do a covert horn-deactivation mission in the middle of the night. Of course, with my luck, I’d be under your car, fiddling with wires when you came out to check your alarm (yet again) and would probably wind up deaf or seriously injured as a result. Could you please just save us all that trouble and cease the honking? On behalf of myself and all your neighbors, I’d like to thank you in advance for your kind attention to this matter.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Crap. There you go again…..
What we do hold against you however, is the unwarranted use of your car’s horn.
Why must you honk your horn repeatedly throughout the day? And not just once, but in three short bursts: Beep! Beep! Beep! I know that this is probably your car alarm sound, but why must you activate it so often? Are you checking to make sure that your car is still there? Because, really, you could just look out your window and get the same results without disturbing any of your neighbors. What I find even harder to understand is why you go outside, look at your car, and then press the alarm button (Beep! Beep! Beep!), before walking back inside the house. Do you need to make sure the alarm still works? Because it was working fine 10 minutes ago when you last activated the triple horn, and I don’t think much has changed since then.
So, maybe you do have OCD. I can understand that and even sympathize with the anxiety you must feel when you do not hear your car go “Beep! Beep! Beep!” However, is it possible that you could confine your OCD to civilized hours? Honking your horn at 11:30 pm on a Sunday evening is bad enough, but doing it again at 1:25 am is just plain excessive. For goodness sake, I’m trying to sleep and your car is parked almost right below my bedroom window!
Please, I beg you, stop activating your car alarm, unless you are getting into or out of your car. If this reckless use of a car horn persists, I may be forced to commit automobilicide. Or at the very least, do a covert horn-deactivation mission in the middle of the night. Of course, with my luck, I’d be under your car, fiddling with wires when you came out to check your alarm (yet again) and would probably wind up deaf or seriously injured as a result. Could you please just save us all that trouble and cease the honking? On behalf of myself and all your neighbors, I’d like to thank you in advance for your kind attention to this matter.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Crap. There you go again…..
how funny (not for you, but the post made me laugh)
What a pain! Surely there's some HOA rule about that.
Send Vika and Eamon over to play ding-dong ditch on their door.
I feel your pain. Our neighbor has the lovely habit and calling his family forward with a LOUD (and held out) honking of his horn. I'm confused? Didn't he just come out of the house he is now honking at, geesh??
Ugh. Not fun. Seriously.
Try this, go buy an annoying obnoxious air horn and whenever they do the Beep! thing, you counter with your own HONK! thing. It will have much more impact if you stand on the street in front of their house and HONK!, but if you want to keep it on the down low just stick your arm out the window. So whenever there is a Beep! Beep! Beep!. Counter with the old HONK! HONK! HONK!. Unless they are challenged they will get the idea.